Beaverton
Beaverton
The WES platform for Beaverton Transit Center is on the southern side of the bus loop that serves 11 bus routes, passengers transferring to the MAX must walk the short distance across the bus loop and through the awing building in the middle of it. The platform is like the other WES ones with a single track ending in a bumper block. Ramps lead up to it from either end and it has a small and simple canopy in the middle of the platform and the Interactive Art Piece found on all of the platforms. The the DMU trains use to reach the station is extremely unique. Trains leave the station and the single track crosses into the median of Lombard Avenue at a traffic light with railroad crossing lights and bells, it follows Lombard Avenue for three blocks through the intersections (with grade crossing lights and bells but no gates) of Canyon Road and Broadway Street before leaving the median and enters a different side of the ROW and crosses the intersection of Lombard Avenue and Farmington Road/Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway joining the Portland & Western Railroad. This intersection has crossing gates (plus bells and lights).
Photos 1-27 taken on 17 October, 2011, 28-36 on 18 October, 2011
The buffer and end of WES's track
A bus and one of the ramps up to the WES platform
This walkway through the transit center building connects the WES platform with MAX
One of the TVMs at the platform entrance
The bumper and ramp off the platform at that end
Going down the ramp from the high level platform to street level
The end of the ramp up to the high-level platform that seems almost as long as the platform
The busy bus loop of the transit center
Looking over to the track and platform
The first crosswalk across the WES track as it curves from the middle of Lombard Avenue on the Do Not Enter private ROW into the station
Do Not Enter and No Trespassing signs into the station
Colorado Railcar DMU #1003 curves from the middle of Lombard Avenue to reach the station
Colorado Railcar Car #2001, WES's lone unpowered trailer curves into the station
Colorado Railcar Unpowered Trailer #2001 enters
Colorado Railcar Unpowered Trailer #2001 keeps entering to a crowd of evening commuters
Colorado Railcar Unpowered Trailer #2001 stopped
Last Updated: 27 January, 2012
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